Visual Culture and Gender in Mexico
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Visual Culture and Gender in Mexico opens by setting out a conceptual, political, historical, and personal framework that serves to anchor the Mexican visual culture it goes on to address. To this end, it also provides a brief overview of feminist thinking from the late nineteenth century to the present day, which has nourished these visual artists.
The notion of uprootedness runs through the entire work, as does the idea of nomadism and nomadic-critical subjects. Eli Bartra addresses loosely defined traditional, modern and contemporary art, including photography and film, as components of the visuality of this corner of the Global South.
The book goes beyond recognised figures such as Frida Kahlo, who have dominated Mexico's visual culture almost exclusively, though it does not dismiss them. It thus offers a visual mosaic that presents the work of photographers, filmmakers and a few artists whose creativity has no qualms about crossing boundaries; one comes from China, another looks out over the Mediterranean, another is based in Guanajuato, another lives in Querétaro, and there is even a European who walks the desert in northern Mexico, unearthing wounds.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. A Long Struggle for Women's Equity
Chapter 2. Feminism, Esthetics, and Visual Culture
On Photography
Chapter 3. On Women's Photographic Portraiture
Chapter 4. How to Depict Non-Motherhood?
On Cinema
Chapter 5. Women in the Cinema of the Mexican Revolution
Chapter 6. How Black is La Negra Angustias?
Chapter 7. Women, Cinema, and the 1968 Student Movement
Chapter 8. Gender and Feminism in the Films of Maricarmen de Lara
Chapter 9. Forced Exiles are Always Painful
Chapter 10. The Two Fridas
Vignettes from an Esthetic Visuality of Lax Boundaries
Chapter 11. Frida Kahlo Reincarnated
Chapter 12. Tradition and Modernity in Harmon
Chapter 13. A Small Visual Jigsaw
And to Close
Bibliography
About the Author
Product details
| Published | May 28 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781666982015 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 44 b/w |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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